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Characteristics of Cyclone
- The average speed is 120 kmph. Although it may vary from 32 kmph to 200 kmph or more. At times it reaches 400 kmph also.
- They have closed isobars. The pressure gradient is very sharp.
- Tropical cyclones develop over oceans and seas only. They are most violent and vigorous over water.
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"Cyclone" refers to their winds moving in a circle, whirling round their central clear eye, with their winds blowing counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The opposite direction of circulation is due to the Coriolis effect.